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251. Elijah on Mount Carmel

1 Kings 18:16-46

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... —the worshipers of Baal or the worshipers of the LORD? That question is bound up with another: who is really God (v. 21)? The people are not as neutral as the NIV’s translation of verse 21 implies (see the additional note). They may waver between two opinions, but while they are weighing up the odds in their heads they are in practice worshiping Baal as their god (v. 24) and neglecting the worship of the LORD (note the dilapidated state of the altar in v. 30). This is a people whose hearts have strayed ...

252. The Year of the Woman

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... regardless of how those families may be configured. May we love and support one another as God intends. 1. Rev. Lowell’s Laughter in the House of God: Humorous Anecdotes about Churches, Clergy, and the World of Religion (Kindle Edition). 2. http://www.dailyfreeman.com/opinion/20180321/kathleen-parker-is-2018-finally-the-year-of-the-woman. 3. Thomas T. Perls, M.D., M.P.H., and Margery Hutter Silver, Ed.D., Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age (New York: Perseus Books Group ...

253. How Angry Are You?

Luke 4:21-30

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... strong convictions often express understandable anxiety through anger — sometimes toward each other, sometimes toward their pastors, and sometimes toward the church at large. To use the metaphor from today’s gospel text, there are sometimes efforts to push the ideas and opinions of voices raising difficult issues over the cliff. Usually, when conflict and disagreement happen, all of us in the fray are participants in the turmoil and the hurt feelings and the raised voices that emerge. We are all part of ...

254. It's Not About Me

Luke 6:39-49

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... it is to be the church when people disagree. The consensus that emerged was that we are not called to agree and we are not called to be all alike. In fact, the very nature of the Body of Christ is diversity — diversity of opinion, diversity of gifts, diversity of identity. Unity is not about uniformity, but about covenant faithfulness to the same Lord we all serve. What makes the church the church is listening, hearing, understanding, and accepting — not judging, arguing, or insisting on our own way. In ...

255. Objectivity of a General

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Editor James S. Hewett

General Robert E. Lee was asked what he thought of a fellow officer in the Confederate army who had made some derogatory remarks about him. Lee rated him as being very satisfactory. The person who asked the question seemed perplexed. "General," he said, "I guess you don't know what he's been saying about you." "I know," answered Lee. "But I was asked my opinion of him, not his opinion of me!"

256. Forgiving One's Enemies

Luke 17:1-10

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Ralph W. Sockman

... commended Whiting in high terms and called him one of the ablest men in the confederate army. An officer present motioned Lee aside to suggest that he must not know what unkind things whiting had been saying about him. Lee answered: "I understood that the president desired to know my opinion of Whiting, not Whiting's ...

257. A Taxing Encounter

Matthew 9:9-13, Mark 2:13-17, Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we play and the positions we hold are SO important sometimes that no one else in the whole church could do what we do. But… the real problem is when we think our EGOS and our OPINIONS are the MOST important of all and more important than anyone else’s! But listen….our things, our habits, our opinions, our buildings…God doesn’t care about those things. God doesn’t care one fiddle about the pattern or the color or even the cleanliness of your rug. God cares about the substance and the clarity ...

258. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... do something, right? But what? The urge to do is not limited to the macrocosm of national and international news. Parents face it every day with their children — young or old. Do we step in? Do we say something? Or should we keep our mouths shut and our opinions to ourselves? Let them learn as they go? To do something or not to do something. What’s a person — especially a Christian — to do; if anything? It’s Peter’s Dilemma, isn’t it? He goes with James and John up on that mountain with Jesus ...

259. True Colors

John 14:15-31, Psalm 66:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , according to its mood. The chameleon uses this ability to blend into its surroundings, to hide from predators, or to silently approach prey. We use the word chameleon in the English language also to indicate a person who is prone to change their opinions or behaviors simply dependent upon what situation, group, culture, or politics that person is immersed into. Ever know someone who sides with anyone they come in contact with? Some call these people “fair weather friends.” They don’t seem to have a ...

260. Building a Winning Team

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The Great I AM. Then it’s a little insulting. But Jesus doesn’t correct his disciples. He just asks another question: “But what about you?” he asks. “Who do you say I am?” So, this is no longer an opinion poll. This isn’t Jesus making small talk. This is decision time. “But what about you? Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter is the only one to respond. “You are the Messiah,” he testifies, “the Son of the living God.” Simon Peter doesn’t realize ...

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Anthony Trollope

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed'.

Charles Evans Hughes

... ; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.

David Hume

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Friedrich Klopstock

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

George Washington

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

Pascal

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

Sheri S. Tepper

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Thomas B. Macaulay

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Showing 251 to 275 of 1622 results

251. Elijah on Mount Carmel

1 Kings 18:16-46

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

252. The Year of the Woman

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

King Duncan

253. How Angry Are You?

Luke 4:21-30

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

254. It's Not About Me

Luke 6:39-49

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

255. Objectivity of a General

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

256. Forgiving One's Enemies

Luke 17:1-10

Illustration

Ralph W. Sockman

257. A Taxing Encounter

Matthew 9:9-13, Mark 2:13-17, Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

258. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

259. True Colors

John 14:15-31, Psalm 66:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

260. Building a Winning Team

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Anthony Trollope

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Charles Evans Hughes

David Hume

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

Friedrich Klopstock

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

George Washington

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

Pascal

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

Sheri S. Tepper

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Thomas B. Macaulay

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